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About Byung Ho Choi

Byung Ho Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Ecumenics, with a concentration in World Christianity and history of religions at Princeton Theological Seminary. His research focuses on the indigenous expressions of Christianity found in Southeast Asia, particularly as found in the Muslim-dominant archipelagic nation of Indonesia. More broadly, his interests include the history of Christianity, issues of conversion and social identity, inter-religious (Christian–Muslim) dialogue, ecumenism, interculturality, anthropology of Christianity, and World Christianity.

Byung Ho Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Ecumenics, with a concentration in World Christianity and history of religions at Princeton Theological Seminary.

NBN Episodes hosted by Byung Ho:

World Christianity August 5, 2023

Birthing Revival

Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France

Michèle Miller Sigg

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
The nineteenth century witnessed a flurry of evangelical and missionary activity in Europe and North America. This was an era of renewed piety and intense zeal spanning denominations and countries …
Asian American Studies June 3, 2023

The Allure of Empire

American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion

Chris Suh

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
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The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford UP, 2023) traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made …
World Christianity May 1, 2023

South Asia's Christians

Between Hindu and Muslim

Chandra Mallampalli

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some dating almost to the …
World Christianity March 5, 2023

A Spirit of Revitalization

Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya

Kyama M. Mugambi

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, Africa has generated unique expressions of Christianity that have, in their rapid development, overtaken older forms of Christianity represented by historic missionary …
World Christianity February 28, 2023

How to Study Global Christianity

A Short Guide for Students

Jason Bruner

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Jason Bruner's How to Study Global Christianity: A Short Guide for Students (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) provides students with an accessible–yet critically oriented–introduction to the foundational methods and themes in Global …
World Christianity January 29, 2023

The Politics of Persecution

Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire

Mitri Raheb

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Persecution of Christians in the Middle East has been a recurring theme since the middle of the nineteenth century. The topic has experienced a resurgence in the last few years …
World Christianity December 25, 2022

The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya

Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes C. 1865-1935

Emma Wild-Wood

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes c.1865-1935 (James Currey, 2020) is a vivid portrayal of Kivebulaya's life that interrogates the role of indigenous …
World Christianity October 14, 2022

Global Christianity

A Guide to the World's Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Gina Zurlo

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Christianity is now a majority-global South religion, with more believers living in Africa, Asia, and Latin America than in Europe and North America. However, most Americans have little exposure to …
World Christianity July 5, 2022

Race for Revival

How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire

Helen Jin Kim

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
In 1973, Billy Graham, "America's Pastor," held his largest ever "crusade." But he was not, as one might expect, in the American heartland, but in South Korea. Why there? Race …
World Christianity June 20, 2022

Telugu Christians

A History

James Elisha Taneti

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Telugu Christians: A History (Fortress Press, 2022) narrates the history of Telugu Christians, a faith community located in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Pondicherry in southern India. A …
World Christianity April 28, 2022

The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South

Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism

João B. Chaves

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
João B. Chaves analyzes the first hundred years of Southern Baptist missionary activity in Brazil to reveal how the racialized practices of Southern Baptist Convention missionaries in the largest Latin …
World Christianity February 28, 2022

Songs of the Lisu Hills

Practicing Christianity in Southwest China

Aminta Arrington

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
The story of how the Lisu of southwest China were evangelized one hundred years ago by the China Inland Mission is a familiar one in mission circles. The subsequent history …
Religion February 11, 2022

Indigeneity in African Religions

Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures

Afe Adogame

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Afe Adogame, Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and …
World Christianity December 10, 2021

The Scots Afrikaners

Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and Central Africa

Retief Muller

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Drawing primarily on Dutch and Afrikaans archival sources including the Dutch Reformed Church Archive and private collections, Retief Muller's The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and …
World Christianity December 8, 2021

Kwame Bediako

African Theology for a World Christianity

Tim Hartman

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Kwame Bediako was one of the great African theologians of his generation. Challenging the assumption that Christianity is a Western religion, he presented a non-Western foundation for theological reflection, expanded …
World Christianity November 15, 2021

Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity

Historical Studies in Honour of Brian Stanley

Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
‘Ecumenism’ and ‘independency’ suggest two distinct impulses in the history of Christianity: the desire for unity, co-operation, connectivity, and shared belief and practice, and the impulse for distinction, plurality, and …
World Christianity October 29, 2021

Worldly Christian

The Life and Times of Stephen Neill

Dyron B. Daughrity

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Bishop Stephen Neill was one of the most prolific, accomplished, and fascinating Christian leaders of the global church in the twentieth century. Privileged to live in radically different cultural contexts …
World Christianity September 8, 2021

A Gospel for the Poor

Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left

David C. Kirkpatrick

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
In 1974, the International Congress on World Evangelization met in Lausanne, Switzerland. Gathering together nearly 2,500 Protestant evangelical leaders from more than 150 countries and 135 denominations, it rivaled Vatican …
World Christianity August 30, 2021

Faith in Flux

Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique

Devaka Premawardhana

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Anthropologist Devaka Premawardhana arrived in Africa to study the so-called explosion of Pentecostalism, the spread of which has indeed been massive. It is the continent's fastest growing form of Christianity …
Religion August 19, 2021

Understanding Religion

Theories and Methods for Studying Religiously Diverse Societies

Paul Michael Hedges

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
This innovative coursebook introduces students to interdisciplinary theoretical tools for understanding contemporary religiously diverse societies--both Western and non-Western. Using a case-study model, the text considers: A wide and diverse array …
World Christianity August 2, 2021

John Song

Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man

Daryl R. Ireland

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Dubbed the "Billy Sunday of China" for the staggering number of people he led to Christ, John Song has captured the imagination of generations of readers. His story, as it …
World Christianity July 29, 2021

Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria

Deanna Ferree Womack

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
The Ottoman Syrians - residents of modern Syria and Lebanon - formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. Deanna Ferree Womack's book Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in …
World Christianity July 28, 2021

Imagining Persecution

Why American Christians Believe There Is a Global War Against Their Faith

Jason Bruner

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Many American Christians have come to understand their relationship to other Christian denominations and traditions through the lens of religious persecution. Jason Bruner's Imagining Persecution: Why American Christians Believe There …
World Christianity July 12, 2021

World Christianity

Methodological Considerations

Martha Theodora Frederiks and Dorottya Nagy

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations (Brill, 2020) addresses this lacuna and explores the methodological ramifications of the World Christianity turn …